Medicine: Smoke Signs

For years women had the consolation that cigarette smoking was somehow
more hazardous to men. No longer. In a 400-page report to Congress last
week, Surgeon General Julius Richmond said that women face the same
dangers in smoking as men. Indeed, lung cancer deaths among women are
rising so rapidly that by 1983 the smoking-related disease should
overtake breast cancer as the leading cancer killer of U.S. women. The
reason, says Richmond, is that so many women picked up the habit during
and after World War II, a full 25 years after men did; and lung cancer
often...